Norwegian Gold Scandal
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On the 28th of August 2008 the then president of Norway, Forconin, Removed 4,000 gold from the national treasury and deposited it into his personal account.
The Politics
Forconin and Sovereign Finland
Forconin was at the time a well respected politician, businessman and citizen of Norway. He had already lead Norway to victory in both the Norway-Russia War and Norway-Finland War, making Norway the biggest country in eRepublik.
In the build up the September elections, a new party was formed by the Finnish people (Sovereign Finland), lead by inunova. This party quickly became huge in comparison to Forconin's Binary Party. Sovereign Finland, now has well over 4 times as many members as Binary Party and looked sure to take most of the congress seats and for inunova to take the presidency.
Forconin quickly acted to "protect" Norway. He removed most of the national gold in the treasury (4,000), and placed it in his account. After this he changed the Binary Party into United eNorway. A party that was said to be about all of Norway working together to be a greater nation then either Norway, Finland or Russia could be on their own. This was after all the newspapers were full of articles demanding freedom for Finland and Russia.
Forconin stated that only he and Salve would have access to the gold, after inunova won the election. He quickly corrected himself adding inunova to the list of people that could access this gold. The gold was then move from his account Forconin to eNorwegian Treasury The new "national bank" of Norway.
The Media
Media Frenzy
Weeks and weeks after all this had taken place, the media was still writing about was this situation. Some wanted Forconin banned, while others argued in his defense that really he had never broken any of the eRepublik rules. One of the best articles at the time was one by Maniakki, Why was the treasury of 4000 gold removed from the state in reality? (Includes the actual logs). The article contained a number of conversations between members of both Binary party and Gullpartiet.
